Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1887-03-05
DAILY POST-IHTHIIGHCER


Congress has adjourned. The iast
isbats has ben slossd. ths last bin has
bsen passed. sB6 tbs GsysI has falien
uDon lhs Speakers dsak viii . sharp
rap, walsh ended the existanes Of the
Forty ninth Congress 81 saddssly and
- somCIsssly AL noiss in The niRhs |
aiapsFSss into inteFminabls gloom the
shaxseteFs wkich exist In drssms.
Even nov the Conersssuen are hasten
ina bOmewAFd. Some are checking
ovss What they have aesonplisbsa.
Oshers are shagriped over whst they
have failed 10 accomplish. Al ara
doubtless bsppy in their relief from
the manifold cares Of the session.
Some have said farewell 70 Washington
for The last time, anA ere returning 10
sink once more into the obscurttY OF
farm. shop or Office. Others. Who have
bean more fortunate 10 retaining the
support Of their constituents. merely
return 10 take Ieok 81 their fences,
and will be on hand 70 aid In ssvine ths
eountEy next Deosmbef.
A. this time, when the session has
Just reached an end, the average eitizsn
Of Warrington Territory will AK him
ssIf hoS nuah either he 81 bis Terri
toFy has besn benefited by the delibera-
tions Of the lawmakers. There are
many measures in which the people Of
waahineton Territory are deeply inter
sstsd. What has been done concerning
thsmi We have had Delegate on the
aOoE Of ths House Of Representatives TO
watch such measures and to guard the
interests Of the Territory. What has
be donsf The queatioa Is pertinent
enc. What has be donsf
Az the eitizen aaks thess questions,
his fass is likely 10 grow a. blank a.
he paper en- which Mr.. Voorhees,
aehieyemspts might be Inscribed. The
Delegate has done nothing. Not one
measure of the many In which tbs peo-
pie of Warrington Territory are 50
dssply interested has become q law.
Not . thing has bean done which will
be Of advantage 10 ths Territory. ID
wOald be harsh 10 say that ME. Voos-
bees has deliberately neglected the in
tsrssts Of bis constituents. bat If be
had set out 10 deliberately neglect
them be could not have done 90 more
successfully.
There are few Whs have not heard OF
the baokvoods legislator Who, a. q mat
YER Of principle. voted no on sveFy
proposition that came before the house
arguing that IL the measure was de-
feated. Il would soon be foFgottsB; Il
70 vas passed and proved TO be wise
laV, his vote would sooa be forgotten
Aad II was passed and proved to be q
lad laW. be could return to his con
stituents and proudly claim the credit
Of having opposed IT, By consistently
acting upon tbis thsoFy. the legislator
In question secured long and credit
able political life, and was at last gath
cred 10 bis fathers. metaphOricallY
speaking. when be voted against mu
nincent appropriation fof the erection
Of public buildings In bis own osunty
Mr.. Voorhees, has, Of course, heard thi
little story. and Il is possible that b,
has endsayored 10 improve upoR th,
shrewd course Of his predecessor In th'
psths OF legislative inactivity. Havint
no vote on which be might trip up q
the other do nothing did, be simpl
leaned back In bis seat and did nothing
said nothing and thoaRht nothing. Tn
Republicans will have = hard time 4
eriticisinR bim for his acts during lh
present session, for be has done n
more than ths psperknifS which lie
upoa bis desk. He has certainly don
nothing good, nor has be done ANY
thing worthy Of criticism. unless inac
tivity itself be criticised.
AZ the osr-INrKLLIoENuKR suggested
come time ago, AFR. Voorhees, may hav
been 20 worn oas BY his efforts durirl
abe FIRST session Of Congress that b
considered himself entitled 10 rest upol
bis laurels during the second session
thin and withered as the lAursls were
He has certainly rested. He has al
lowed bis pFesense and not bis voice b,
SPEAK for the Territory. He will return
TO us wearing a crown for negative viz
tues. he viii explain in bis own mslli
tious way the elarine discrepancy which
exists between what be has done anG
what be promised tbs people be wsult
do.
OF course, there may be some who 10
heve that ID Is 10 the advantage Of d I.
Territory 10 possess such Delegate 81
Mr. voorhees,. Possibly IL IL. but would
u nos be wise 20 save ali the ttonble and
expense Of elections by having no Dele.
gate 81 sllf TIE people ara just as able
10 trust their Affairs to lnok AZ Mr.
VesrAees b 10 do u for them. VIII,
should there Be a nliddIsmanG II woalt
- IS well TO have no Delegate Al oil
and 20 lee things drift. e. 10 elect ,
Delegate whose only recommendations
for further pretsFmens IL that he hal
not materially inseFfeFed with theii
drifting.